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That's nothing unique american and quite standard for western democracies. Way more important than military force is legal support and diplomatic weight, to get you extradited, if you end up in your host countries legal system for whatever reason, which is the way more likely thing to happen.

It's not unheard of, that dual citizens renounce their more or less vaguely authoritarian citizenship when it's too dangerous to live or visit there with a dual one. Since then the other state has no obligation to intervene and is even blocked from reigning into the affairs of another nation.



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